St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-06
MINNEAPOLIS NEWS.
Minnesota Old Settlers Spend
a Pleasant Day at the
Exposition.
Bishop Ireland Delivers the
AddreSS--IneidentS of
the Day.
Where the President May be
Seen During His Stay in
Minneapolis.
Low Water Interfering With
Low Water Interfering With
neutrality-suspicious. Other
Matters.

1.-THE meeting of the Old Settlers asso
citation yesterday at the Exposition, the
''makerS of this state of what it is to-
day." was very pleasant affair and
carried out in an easy social manner
that bears out Bishop Ireland'S teSti-
mony that the old settlers were one and
all a simple, kindly, intelligent race of
people. Minneapolis was, of course, the
most largely represented, but old folks
from Saltwater, st. CroiX and other
points in this state and even adjoining
ones could be seen on the platform
beneath the band stand, where
the exercises came off. Colonel Stevens
was in an especially happy mood as he
presided, and before Introducing the
speakers of the day, read some memo
randa of the early days that was very in
tereSting. and elected good deal of ap-
plauSe. ''One hundred and hfty-Seven
years after the discovery of st. Anthony
falls, viz. in 1887, by Hennepin, the
missionary, the late lamented Franklin
Steele made a claim which included the
site of this stately building, and next
year Peter Quinn and his Son-in-law
Samuel Findley and Joseph Roach oc-
cupied lands here. Colonel Leavenworth
with his United States troops reached
the st. Peter, now the Minnesota river.
on the Sth day of June. 1919, and the
building of Fort Smelling was com
menced In that year a child was born
TO Maud Hubbard, who was with Leave
worth's troop, and this was undoubt-
edly
THE FIRST WHITE CHILD
born in what is now called Hennepin
county. The first claim made in Min
neapOliS proper, now West Minneapolis,
was on the 18th of June, 1S49. The Or
ganiZation of the county was on the 9th
day of October, 1852" His paper con-
tanned more interesting data concerning
this neighborbood, and was listened to
with great attention. At its conclusion
Judge AtWater spoke a few words in his
characteristic vein of humor. He dep
recated the honor done him; no greater
blunder had ever been perpetrated. not
even Balaclava, than placing him where
he was speaking to them, totally unpre-
pared, and the only knowledge he had
of the demand upon him was what he
read in the morning paper. He felt
the management had done him
an injustice, but then he would
allow there were palliating circum-
stances, for he was not alone in his
troubles, for had they not put him in com
pany with the most eloquent and most ia
voraDly known prelate of the Northwest,
clergyman he was proud to be able to
call his friend, Bishop Ireland, of st.
Paul? And if everything did not go
right at all events, he had one cOnSola-
ton, he could get absolutiOn from the
good bishop.
Speaking of the old settlers, he said
not one of them owned in fee simple
any of the grand residences in the city.
but they had the consolation of knowing
they had laid foundations of something
more solid than bricks or granite: the
greatness of this city and county. The
Exposition in which they stood, exceed
the widest dreams of any of them of
forty years ago, and when he came to
think that man like C. NJ. Palmer
could have been evolved in this tertiary
age in forty years, why he began to
think there was something in the Oar
winian theory. and that 500 years from
now there might develop race of mon
keys in this region.
BISHOP IRELAND'S ADDRESS.
The speech of the day was the elo-
quent address of Bishop Ireland. 1t
teemed with that broad, deep, whole
SoulnesS which is part of his nature,
and throughout its delivery the atten-
ton was close and earnest. He opened
with the remark that he had to regret he
came too late by two years to be men,
Der of the Old Settlers association, but
although not one of them, he was able
grand qualities of mind and heart. and
praise them and know their great value
without being accused of favoritiSm.
He regretted that in the past few years
these noble pioneers were passing away
but they all contained lessons for the
rising generation to follow as they
passed down the broad pathway of time
to their great reward. What this grand
commonwealth was to-day was solely
to hn yrOyly oh Of 1,,
venerable people who surrounded him
to-day. They were the ones who trans
formed the wilderness into thrifty farms,
into f1OuriShing cities, into all the mag
nificence and culture of the modern
world, and the secret of the grand
progress made by these people of the
Twin Cities was largely owing to the
moral and religious atmosphere that
permeated the founders of this com
munity., Speaking of the wonders ac-
cOmpllShed in this state during the past
forty years, the reverend speaker said
were we to read of the history of such
people in the olden times we would look
upon it as most likely the fable of the
ancients.
IN ELOQUENT LANGUAGE
he related his trip to Europe and con-
trasted in fervid words the difference
between those effete European countries
with the chances open for still grander
future than the splendid present are
enjoyed and which is vouchsafed to us
by beneticent Providence hele in this
grand state of Minnesota. This he char
acteriZed as the land of promise: here.
where we stand to-day, will be the seat
of empire, material and intellectual.
The great problems of the age will be
solved in this wonderful Northwestern
region. Every revolution in the old
world, the Nihilism of Russia, the labor
agitation of England, the agitations in
Ireland, Italy and France. received
their first impetus from the knowledge
of what this wonderful land had accom-
plished, and if aught happened
in America to dull liberty, to de-
strOy the fabric upon which our constl-
tuition is formed, the light of the world
would go out and progress and liberty
would be cast back for ever and ever.
But, thank God, no probability of any
such castrophe need trouble them.
There was one subject he wished to be
clearly understood on and that was, he
had no patience with the sickly senti-
mentaliSm of some people for the an
archists in Chicago. The glory of Amer
lea was her good institution of law and
order. Destroy them and chaos reigned,
and misery would be the result, and
here was it the old settlers set grand
example to the young generation. for
they came out here to the wildS of forty
years ago and maintained order and
kept the peace without any police or any
material force to keep the public
order. In conclusion the bishop said :
The great hope of America lies in the
fact it is Christian country; at the bot
tom of all great deeds, all great states
manShip, all great movements is the be-
lief in an oyer-ruling beneficent provi-
dence. Religion and Nature come from